The April poetry project is taking a religious bent. I want to read the Tanakh (aka, the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible) and write a poem a day inspired by this work of poetry-law-history. It is pretty fascinating stuff and I am rather surprised by what is in there sometimes. Take the brief story of Babel that I read yesterday. I'd always thought the story was about hubris, but when I read it this time, I was rather surprised by the fact that God was just afraid. Weird. People were harmonized, in cooperation, and he was worried about what they could accomplish. There's a Smith's song that goes, "If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know."
Anyway, always a good read, and I think a series of mediocre poems are a very fine way to process the text.
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